― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 02:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lurky McLurk, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link
is "hew and cry," innit?
― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link
also -- livelong, as in "the livelong day"
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:27 (eighteen years ago) link
You can wreak terror as well.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 06:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 06:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:31 (eighteen years ago) link
(Half Man Half Biscuit- Keeping Two Chevrons Apart)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 09:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Suicide is only ever contemplated, never "thought about" or "considered".
― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Quench: Also a blacksmithing term, meaning to plunge the hot item into water (or into captured enemy soldiers, if you're a samurai). Basically refers to applying liquid.
Rack: Racked with guilt/sobs/etc.
Cleave: Biblical! Genesis 2:25: "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh".
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel, Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker, Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker, Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:13 (eighteen years ago) link
(I always think of that when I see that word)
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link
auk (auk and style)
Turns out there's no such saying.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 10:40 (eight years ago) link
Booby trap
Obviously "boob"/"booby" is still used in, er, another context, but I think this is the only contemporary usage of its original meaning (a foolish person).
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 11:30 (eight years ago) link
booby prize
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 11:38 (eight years ago) link
Achingly beautiful?
― real orgone kid (NickB), Thursday, 26 May 2016 07:50 (eight years ago) link
Oh, I didn't know the English term for the concept of "booby prize", thanks for enlightening me.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:19 (eight years ago) link
Also, I guess the term "boob tube" is still used in the US, or is it?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:20 (eight years ago) link
(Meaning television, not the piece of clothing.)
― Tuomas, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:21 (eight years ago) link
No it's not. And there's no piece of clothing called boob tube.
― Josefa, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:27 (eight years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_top
A tube top, colloquially known in the U.K. as a boob tube, is a shoulderless, sleeveless women's garment that wraps around the upper torso.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:35 (eight years ago) link
Ah OK, well in America we don't have that term
― Josefa, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:38 (eight years ago) link
huh I always thought it was an Americanism
― reader, if you love him so much why don't you marry him? (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:50 (eight years ago) link
much of a "muchness"
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:50 (eight years ago) link
Finland... UK... USA... do we even speak the same language?
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:51 (eight years ago) link
"Boob tube" in America means TV, yes, but only someone over age 60 would use that term in that way. We say "tube top" for the garment.
― Josefa, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:52 (eight years ago) link
... but only someone over age 60 would wear one.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:53 (eight years ago) link
You should come to Brooklyn
― Josefa, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:55 (eight years ago) link
The high water mark of "boob tube" was probably the 70s, so "over age 60" is a little exaggerated, but it's not a current hip hep and happening phrase. It is definitely generally understandable still. "The tube" for tv is probably a little more in use, but then again tvs aren't as in use as they used to be.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 26 May 2016 10:05 (eight years ago) link
Genuinely surprising that there's no porn streaming site called BoobTube.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 26 May 2016 11:18 (eight years ago) link
"Boob Tube"? You don't mean "Goggle Box" ?
― Mark G, Thursday, 26 May 2016 11:40 (eight years ago) link
Wit in "To wit"
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 11:45 (eight years ago) link